Числа 3:1

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Вот родословие Аарона и Моисея, когда говорил Господь Моисею нагоре Синае,

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generations: Genesis 2:4, Genesis 5:1, Genesis 10:1, Exodus 6:16, Exodus 6:20, Matthew 1:1

spake: Numbers 1:1, Leviticus 25:1, Leviticus 27:34

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:47 - General Numbers 1:50 - thou shalt Numbers 8:1 - General Numbers 26:57 - of Gershon Deuteronomy 10:8 - time the Lord 1 Chronicles 6:48 - brethren Zechariah 12:13 - Levi

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses,.... The descendants of them, those of the former, who is named first, because the eldest, were priests, and those of the latter Levites, and who are not very plainly pointed at, but are included among the Amramites, Numbers 3:27; the posterity of Moses being very obscure, only Levites, and these not particularly named but swallowed up among the Kohathites: find the following account was as it stood,

in the day [that] the Lord spoke with Moses in mount Sinai; and not, altogether as it then, was when he spoke to him in the wilderness, of Sinai, for then Aaron had four sons, but now two of them were dead as is after observed; and it seems to be for the sake of this circumstance chiefly that this clause is so put.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “generations” (see Genesis 2:4) now given, though entitled those of Aaron and Moses (Aaron standing first as the older brother), are those of Aaron only. The personal dignity of Moses, though it gave him rank as at the head of his tribe, was not hereditary. He had, and desired to have Numbers 14:12; Exodus 32:10, no successor in his office but the distant prophet like unto himself Deuteronomy 18:18. Aaron was the ancestor of a regular succession of priests.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The generations of Aaron and Moses, 1-4.

The tribe of Levi to minister to the Lord under Aaron and his

sons, 5-10.

They are taken in the place of the first-born, 11-13.

Moses is commanded to number them, 14-16.

Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the names of the three heads of

families of the Levites, 17.

Of Gershon and his family, 18-21.

Their number, 7,500, ver. 22.

Their place behind the tabernacle, westward, 23.

Their chief, Eliasaph, 24.

Their charge, 25, 26.

Of Kohath and his family, 27.

Their number, 8,600, ver. 28.

Their place, beside the tabernacle, southward, 29.

Their chief, Elizaphan, 30.

Their charge, 31.

The chief of the Levites, Eleazar, son of Aaron, 32.

Of Merari and his family, 33.

Their number, 6,200, ver. 34.

Their chief, Zuriel, they shall pitch beside the tabernacle,

northward, 35.

Their charge, 35-37.

MOSES and AARON to encamp before the tabernacle, eastward, 38.

The amount of all the males among the Levites from a month old

and upwards, 22,000, ver. 39.

Moses is commanded to number the first-born, 40;

and to take the Levites and their cattle, instead of the

first-born of man and beast among the Israelites, 41.

Moses numbers the first-born, who amount to 22,273, ver. 43.

As the first-born were 273 more than the Levites, Moses is

commanded to take from the people five shekels apiece for

them, 44-47,

which is to be given to Aaron and his sons, 48.

Moses does accordingly, and finds the amount of the money to be

1,365 shekels, 49, 50,

which is given to Aaron and his sons, 51.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Numbers 3:1. The generations of Aaron and Moses — Though Aaron and Moses are both mentioned here, yet the family of Aaron alone appears in the list: hence some have thought that the word Moses was not originally in the text. Others think that the words ואלה תלדות veelleh toledoth, these are the generations, should be rendered these are the acts, or transactions, or the history of the lives, as the same phrase may be understood in Genesis 2:4; Genesis 6:9. However this may be, it is evident that in this genealogy the family of Aaron are alone mentioned, probably because these belonged to the priesthood. Moses passes by his own family, or immediate descendants; he gave no rank or privilege to them during his life, and left nothing to them at his death. They became incorporated with the Levites, from or amongst whom they are never distinguished. What a strong proof is this of the celestial origin of his religion! Had it been of man, it must have had the gratification of some impure passion for its object; lust, ambition, or avarice: but none of these ever appear during the whole of his administration amongst the Israelites, though he had it constantly in his power to have gratified each. What an essential difference between the religion of the Pentateuch and that of the Koran! The former is God's workmanship; the latter is a motley mixture of all bad crafts, with here and there a portion of heavenly fire, stolen from the Divine altar in the Old and New Testaments, to give some vitality to the otherwise inert mass.